Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Woolworth ("Woolie") Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton...
...Slice of Bread. In this, as in many other ways, the 36th President of the U.S. is an anthology of antonyms. In him, the conservatism of the self-made Texas businessman and the liberalism of the poverty-haunted New Deal politician pulse like an alternating current. He is overbearing to his aides, then suddenly overwhelmingly considerate; cynical about men's motives, yet sentimental enough to weep when a group of Texas Congressmen presented him with a laudatory plaque; incredibly thin-skinned, yet able to brush off some criticism with the comment, "My daddy told me that...
Fenstemaker: Slice of goddam bread, even...
...been attacked as a mere wheeler-dealer for negotiating one compromise or another, but the fact is that the alternative to such controversial compromises as the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, which, as majority leader, he forcefully shepherded along, might have been neither half a loaf nor a slice of bread, but nothing...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...